I’m not going to read Marjorie Greene’s entire statement so I might theoretically be missing some context, but what does she say here? “Communists aren’t Americans and need to be locked up.”
That’s just McCarthyism. A bunch of nonsense we should have left behind.
Even if her accusations of communism were accurate, there isn’t anything in the Constitution that says people who identify as Communists cannot be American citizens. On the other hand, birthright citizenship is specifically granted in the 14th Amendment.
I truly, honestly, believe that a congressperson saying that AOC, who was born in NYC, isn’t American, is a violation of their oath of office. Marjorie Greene swore to defend the Constitution, and the Constitution couldn’t be any clearer about AOC’s citizenship. I also think that office holders who violate their oath of office should be removed from their office, and that it is the responsibility of other representatives to do so.
It’s all quite the opposite, in fact. From the time of the Revolution onward, there were lots of Americans fighting for the working class against the rich. It’s deeply rooted in our history, and America would never have developed the same way without it. The history books written since the Cold War have glossed over much of it, but it’s not something you can completely remove, either.
We celebrate Veterans Day as the start of summer, and Labor Day as the end of summer. However, one of these gets a lot more flag waving and attention going on than the other. People literally died for both of those, but Labor Day is treated as just a day off.
To be fair, labor day has little history. It was picked to take attention away from May Day, the traditional day of labor celebration and activity. May Day tends to be more about action, not just celebration, so the capitalists wanted to pick a different date and new traditions where people just stay home instead of advocating for their best interests.
Yes, and I think that only strengthens the point that this was all shooed away where it wouldn’t be a bother.
You mean Memorial day. Veterans day is Nov 11th
Yes, right. Still works.
I think you got it backwards. Labor (Memorial) Day is a real holiday that gets people out and about. Veteran’s Day is no big deal, almost no one gets off work.
a violation of their oath of office
I like the idea that the way to punish politicians for irresponsible behavior is to hold them seriously accountable to their Oath of Office. Give the oath some teeth, and enforce it.
How do you do that in a way that can be prevented from being used for political reasons?
That’s like preventing a disease from being used for political reasons.
As COVID, a virus that has zero political affiliation and infected nearly everyone equally, proved…
You can’t.
As COVID, a virus that has zero political affiliation and infected nearly everyone equally, proved…
Except it didn’t, it infected more people who didn’t vax who leaned primarily Republican
Yeh, it was COVID that went after republicans.
It wasn’t republicans that politicised COVID and rejected medicine and science.
It wasn’t republicans listening to republican politicians who called it a hoax, and ignored scientific/medical recommendations.
It wasn’t COVID that was politicised.
COVID was created as a political tool to go after specifically American republicans.(That’s all sarcasm.
COVID doesn’t care about your beliefs. It tried to infect nearly everyone. The resistance to being infected is social distancing, masks and vaccines. All of which are super effective. As proven by the fact that the US is no longer losing a 9/11-worth of people PER DAY and the fact that society is mostly back to normal)“tried to infect” is not “did infect”. It is unthinking. It doesn’t care about your beliefs. It does “care” about reality of who was vaccinated, which causes it to infect people with vax aligned beliefs less.
Well sure, but that’s not the virus’s fault.
The entire point is for it to be used for political reasons. But y’know good politics.
and that it is the responsibility of other representatives to do so.
Elect me to Congress and I will immediately begin physically throwing these people out of sessions.
Greene, and most of the GOP, just say stuff for feelings. Facts don’t matter. That’s it.
They also say it to make headlines and draw attention. Kind of what class clowns did back in grammar school. Some people never grown up (pun intended).
This happened in 2021. Green was mad about the Green New Deal and AOC failing to “embrace our American ways.” Sorry for the NYPost article, it was the one I found.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/27/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-aoc-communist-at-ohio-speech/
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tore into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a speech Saturday, calling the progressive Democrat a “communist” and criticizing the Green New Deal.
“She’s not an American. She really doesn’t embrace our American ways,” Greene said about Ocasio-Cortez, who was born in the Bronx, according to Fox News.
“You want to know why? She has something called the ‘Green New Deal,’” the Georgia Republican said about Ocasio-Cortez’s climate plan.
Last month Green called AOC a “pathetic little hypocrite” for her comments opposing the US attack on Iran.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, has called out Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, for her criticism of President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran.
Greene wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Ocasio-Cortez, who had said Saturday’s attack was “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment,” was a “pathetic little hypocrite.”
I don’t think it would be a violation of her oath if Greene said something like, “AOC’s actions were unamerican,” or even, “AOC’s actions are not American.”
But even with this context, I think her saying that AOC “is not an American” is a violation of her oath. You might think, “Greene wouldn’t understand the difference,” but I think that language, as well as her insults, would not be allowed on the floor of congress, so we already have this requirement that they do understand a tiny bit of decorum. Why not expand it to all public statements?
Honestly, I don’t think it’s healthy to allow our politicians to lie at all. But that would be even harder to police.
Find one of the morons that hasn’t made a game of forcefully violating their oath of office
That is a very serious issue. Most of the representatives, if they actually took their oath seriously, would be defending the Constitution. But they’re defending the major donors to their campaigns, instead.
Now, if I was in that position, I’d follow my oath, and inevitably lose the next time, because my donors would back somebody who would play ball. This conflict of interests means that our current system automatically-selects in favor of corrupt people who don’t care about their oaths.
So, I am sure you’re right that everybody, or virtually everybody, is an oath breaker. Only a small few can afford to refuse corporate money. We can never fix this problem unless we have significant campaign finance reform.
These are the people making abortion illegal and literally burning books.
Why does AOC, the larger politician, not simply eat MTG?
Can you imagine eating an old boot?
What kind of boot
One that loves getting licked
One brimming with old strangers’ cum.
This is the way
Taller. Not larger. Marge is… robust. Got a neck like a linebacker and triceps like John cena except she’s more veiny
She’s the equivalent of a throbbing chode in a Barbie wig
MAGA keep insisting they’re not fascists, but then keep doing & saying fascist-like shit.
Wait until we get to the “Yeah, we’re fascists…” part and they get rid of any pretenses at all.
I know I deserve ridicule for watching this channel at all, but you should check out the recent Jubilee 1vs20 with Mehdi Hasan.
They are well past being comfortable calling themselves fascists outright. Not the sarcastic ‘you called me one so I’ll call myself too’ but full tilt yes this is what they think.
Tldw: Just skip to 22:00 for blue shirt guy.
I saw clips of this and thought to post it on Lemmy, but I don’t wanna platform jubilee at all. But yeah it’s fucking crazy how fucking normalized straight up fascism is in today’s world.
Just a thing to keep in mind. These people are all trying to boost their YouTube channels or whatever. They’re creators, not random people. They have a vested interest to act in ways that make them go viral.
That’s not to say it takes away from the vileness, in fact it intensifies it because it’s all the more deceitful to whoever tunes in. But that’s kind of how fascism spreads: it pretends to be normality until enough people believe it is… and because of that, it actually becomes normal — it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So these people may not be anecdotal evidence that it’s being normalized, but rather they are actively doing the normalizing.
Right after ICE has been deployed in all major blue cities and any opposition, like any critical journalists, activists and politicians, have been suitable intimidated or disappeared.
It has already begun…
What was that event they had when the floor was some giant Nordic rune symbol thing?
Marjorie Taylor Green is white and therefore an illegal immigrant by definition.
“My ancestors came over on the mayflower!”
“Yeah, and what type of visa did they have?”
As far as being a national embarrassment goes, she really gives out Cheeto in chief a run for his money.
shes theres as a lightning rod for the house Republicans, both her and bobo, plus shes there to run interference for being a putins mouthpiece, which is why she has a wierd stance on israel, hurting iran by israel/by extensions gaza weakens putins relationship in the region.
P is for projection
Why are they still having rallies…
His fragile ego is going through hard times.
Cultists gonna cult.
Once this bullshit is over -abd one day it will- van we please criminalize calling politicians to be locked up? And I’m not talking about your average Lemmy calling for Trumo to be locked up because of too many to count crimes he committed, I’m talking about politicians calling for locking up other politicians only because you don’t like them.
If you have a following, first amendment no longer applies to you, you don’t get to say whatever bullshit that springs up in your head.
This would make it illegally to call for Trump to be locked up for the legitimate crimes has has and is committing and is obviously unconstitutional
No it would not.
Calling for something reasonable after proven evidence is submitted that the person broke the law should not be criminalized, though even with that there is a time and place. Submit that stuff to a court, not to twitter.
Either way, I’m talking about making random unsubstantiated claims or over generalizing claims like “all Jews are evil because they all support genocide” which obviously is bullshit
How do you substantiate it without literally proving it in court which in this case we are here in the US specifically denied the right to do
We should make it so all public statements by a politician are considered as under oath. With harsh penalties for perjury.
I’d go for that
MTG: *trolling*
AOC:
Gods, I love her more every day. 🥹✊🏼
Second of all, I am reasonably confident AoC has more toes than MTG!
…
Wait, wait wait, this is not a foot fetish thing:
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-feet-three-toes-photo-1784369
… well, ok, maybe it is a foot fetish thing, if you’re into neanderthals who’ve been wearing horrendously fitting shoes/sandals for so long they’ve deformed their feet.
I don’t think it was worth following that link. I’ve now been to Newsweek and X and I feel gross. So here’s the photo, if anyone else is curious. Pretty sure the article said it’s not real, but I was kinda just skimming for an image of weird toes, so I’m not sure.
Oh it is gross in many ways, no argument there, gross feet, gross tabloid / social media bs…
But, this is apparently the state of modern US politics, and I wanted to give an at least semi-credible source, and not have to personally dive in to twitter to find the direct source.
Also, this is, I think, the real photo.
The fake one has MTG with only 3 visible toes on each foot.
Here, hers are splayed badly, and her pinky toes are basically crushed under/behind the sandal and adjacent toe, but you can still make them out.
EDIT: goddamnit.
Yeah, here it is, the fake, based off of the above image, that circulated around twitter:
Ahh, thank you! So the truth is that she has webbed feet, which seems weird enough on its own that we don’t really need the 3 toe rumor.
Not…webbed feet.
Webbed feet is when there is … webbing, skin connecting between your toes, like a swimming flipper, as a duck does, though its usually not that pronounced when it occurs in humans.
Hers have been deformed by her wearing extremely poorly fitting shoes her whole life, and/or possibly just had fucked up toe alignment to some extent, to begin with.
More like foot bondage, but less extreme, and self imposed.
Think of how if your teeth grow in funny, you may need braces to better align them.
Well, this is sorta like that, but where the shoes are functionally the braces, and they’re all fucked up and force the toes into an extreme configuration over time.
EDIT:
Basically, MTG is Cinderella’s evil half or step sisters.
They kept jamming their feet into badly sized and badly formed fancy shoes, and at least in the original version, they actually cut off parts of their feet to try and literally fill Cinderella’s shoes, but the Prince kept noticing the blood, and them walking awkwardly.
MTG has just been jamming her feet into, eh, likely needle point pumps of some kind, for so long, that they’ve smushed her pinky toes under and behind the adjacent toe, and the other toes have splayed out to compensate for the lack of balance that causes.
Hey guys I really don’t enjoy this dystopian late stage capitalism…
FUCK OFF YOU COMMUNIST RAT!!
ehm wtf
Anything to distract from Epstein?
I think this is from like 2021
But it says 2hours ago on the screenshot.
I guess that means the screenshot was taken 2 hours after the original post was made. I found this in my old saved photos from several years ago. Still seemed funny and relevant today
Perjury Traitor Greed is a toxic fungus.
does this imply that most communists are quite large?
I like to think of it as MTG hedging her accusation. “I think AOC has become just a little communist lately”.
They are all exactly equally large
🎶I’m a little bit country…🎶
DEATH TO MTG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 's bullshit…
